About Joseph Krulder

I've always been a bit of a History geek. As a veteran of the U.S. Navy, the world appeared before me. Eventually, I returned to school to major in History, asking questions which eventually led me to study in the U.K., earning my PhD in 2015. As a teacher, I do teach students to podcast and samples of those podcasts do appear on my bio and blog site, joehistorian.com. My book on the execution of Admiral John Byng also has a website and can be found at byngmicrohistory.com. I am open to all histories, though I am partial to the long eighteenth century. The transition into modernism fascinates me, human adjustments to globalism, the rise of powerful trading companies, markets that have gravity, reactions to all of this, especially religious outlooks and their curious mix of condemnations and approbations. I also look at the Atlantic, the waterway that connects Europe to Africa and to the New World. The rise of slavery, the demise of the indigenous, and the degradation of natural resources. All that, and I am also a celebrated teacher - awarded so by my teaching institution. Last, podcasting is terrific, an incredible tool to get the word out for very little costs.

Joseph Krulder is a historian of Britain's long eighteenth-century: cultural, social, military, and economic.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Joseph:

Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System" (Yale UP, 2022)

July 25, 2022

Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System

Maeve Ryan
Hosted by Joseph Krulder

Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 2022) highlights Britain’s early-nineteenth-century, …

Micah Alpaugh, "Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

February 7, 2022

Friends of Freedom

Micah Alpaugh
Hosted by Joseph Krulder

As the old cliché goes, “there must have been something in the water.” A new book by historian Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social M…

Edmond Smith, "Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650" (Yale UP, 2021)

December 13, 2021

Merchants

Edmond Smith
Hosted by Joseph Krulder

In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Throu…

Kristin Hussey, "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

November 11, 2021

Imperial Bodies in London

Kristin Hussey
Hosted by Joseph Krulder

With the opening of the Suez Canal, larger and faster steamships, plus dockside engineering to accommodate them – time shrunk in the British Empire. T…

Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Pegasus Books, 2021)

October 22, 2021

Shakespearean

Robert McCrum
Hosted by Joseph Krulder

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright’s plays in Central Park, New York. …